Biobanking human endometrial tissue and blood specimens: standard operating procedure and importance to reproductive biology research and diagnostic development.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a standard operating procedure (SOP) for collection, transport, storage of human endometrial tissue and blood samples, subject and specimen annotation, and establishing sample priorities.

Design

The SOP synthesizes sound scientific procedures, the literature on ischemia research, sample collection and gene expression profiling, good laboratory practices, and the authors' experience of workflow and sample quality.

Setting

The National Institutes of Health, University of California, San Francisco, Human Endometrial Tissue and DNA Bank.

Patient(s)

Women undergoing endometrial biopsy or hysterectomy for nonmalignant indications.

Intervention(s)

Collecting, processing, storing, distributing endometrial tissue and blood samples under appro

SUBMITTER: Sheldon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3080464 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature